Ellen Dunbar (who first appeared in The Smithfield Bargain) visits Wolfe Abbey, the home of Corey Wolfe, Marquess Wulfric (who first appeared in The Wolfe Wager), to watch a fireworks show. She finds Lord Wulfric fun and enjoys the fireworks until something goes terribly wrong. Fireworks explode, knocking her from her feet and fatally wounding the marquess. She is shattered at his death, but her despair becomes astonishment when, that night, Corey reappears . . . as a ghost! He vows to find her the perfect husband before the chrysanthemums bloom at summer's end. The problem is, as Corey match-makes for Ellen (who is the only one who can see and hear him), he begins to fall in love with her himself. So what's a ghost to do when he's made a vow and he can't even touch the woman he loves?

Bryce Trevarian loves one thing—his life as the first mate on a clipper ship sailing the waters between Massachusetts and China. But his life gets much more complicated when a woman claiming to be his captain's half-sister seeks their help. Beautiful Lian with her sleek, black hair and blue eyes is desperate to escape before she is forced into a brothel. When Captain Catherwood asks for Bryce's assistance in saving Lian, Bryce agrees reluctantly. He doesn't believe Lian is a Catherwood, and he is unsettled by how drawn he is to her. The rescue goes awry. Lian is saved, but the captain suffers a mortal wound. Before he dies, he exacts a promise from Bryce to see Lian home to his family in Stormhaven, Massachusetts. The long journey is difficult for two people who are in mourning and blame themselves and each other for the captain's death. Yet, when Bryce leaves Lian with her new family, both wonder if they will ever see each again. When they do, several years later, Lian...

Rory Mullen pretends to be a boy while working in Yellow Hal's place in the pirate haven of Port Royal, Jamaica. Her aunt was the pirate's mistress, but is dead. Where else could Rory go? Her father betrayed her mother, who died at Rory's birth. Or so she believes until Nathan Lawler comes into Yellow Hal's place looking for the answers to a puzzle that leads to treasure. A treasure that once belonged to her father and which he hid to keep it from his greatest enemy. She knows right away that Nathan and his crew are not the pirates they pretend to be, and Nathan quickly discovers Rory is no lad. Fascinated by the beautiful woman she truly is, he realizes that she is the key to the treasure he covets. As they follow the clues and their hearts, he wonders which was Rory's father's greatest treasure: his gold or his daughter.

Determined to escape her horrible life in Ohio, Samantha Perry agrees to marry a man looking for a mail-order bride to join him in the Yukon where he is panning for gold. But she quickly learns, upon her arrival in the far north, Joel Houseman is not the man she expected him to be. Joel hides his secrets, and his reasons for wanting her to become his bride seem to have nothing to do with love. The fierce weather, the harsh conditions, and lies urge her to flee. Her heart longs to stay when Joel's hard exterior begins to fall away, and she sees the man he tries to hide. But he has lied to her before. Can she believe him now and find a love more precious than gold?

Gypsy Elliott has found a hiding place from a man stalking her and her family, seeking revenge for a crime she can't remember committing. Her haven is a Michigan logging camp where she is the kingbee (chief) cook. When she is asked to put a logger with a broken leg to work in her kitchen, she wants to say no. She realizes Patrick Lassiter isn't like other loggers, but she is not sure why he is there. Patrick tells no one that he's a private investigator hired by the owner of the logging company. He faked an injury to stay in camp and enjoys its excitement until he discovers the man he seeks may be after Gypsy. Complicating an investigation by falling in love is stupid, but he can't resist pretty Gypsy. Then he discovers the reason why getting involved is wrong: He has to choose between doing his job and saving Gypsy's life from someone who will do anything for love.

Luke Bradfield has come out to Wyoming to do some articles for his newspaper back east. His editor sent him to work for a friend, Mackenzie Smith. Instead of the old man, Luke finds Smith's daughter . . . also named Mackenzie. She now runs Bentonville's newspaper while trying to keep track of her exuberant son. A widow, the newspaper and print shop is her way of providing for her and her son. When Luke insists on working for her, Mackenzie wants to send him out of her shop. However, she could use the help. The situation on the ranges around the small town is uneasy with cattlemen fighting over the land. She quickly realizes she needs Luke. Not just to help with the newspaper and not just to keep her and her son safe, but because she could fall in love with a man who considers the fight for justice a newspaper's job. Yet, will they have a chance at love when a war is brewing on the ranges?

Hamilton Windham's first meeting with Miss Nerissa Dufresne is nearly his last, because she is knocked from her feet when his horse takes a hedge near where she is walking. The viscount feels responsible for hurting the charming young woman and escorts her to where she lives in Bath with her stepbrother. She doubts she will ever see the handsome, kind man again, because his social circle is far beyond hers. But events conspire to bring them together again and again, and Nerissa is intrigued by the viscount. Hamilton tries to keep his focus on the person who stole a fortune from his family, but he is distracted by the pretty young miss who seems more interested in the man he is than the title he possesses. His search leads them into danger and also into love, assuming they can stay alive . . .

A woman must choose between the life she has known and the charismatic stranger who offers her a world beyond her utopian community in the second novel in Jo Ann Ferguson's passionate and poignant Haven Trilogy River's Haven, Indiana, governs its inhabitants by rigidly imposed laws, including some highly unusual ones about marriage and family. Defying the town—and its all-powerful Assembly of Elders—Rachel Browning takes in orphaned Katherine Mulligan to raise as her own. But now Rachel's overprotective brother is pressuring the single mother to marry. Rachel's ideal husband certainly isn't the brash, seductive stranger she meets when Katherine runs away. Wyatt Colton's life is like the ever-changing river. The restless rover can't imagine putting down roots in one place, especially not this backwater burg with its tyrannical rules and regulations. He'll stay in River's Haven just long enough to repair his run-aground steamboat. But what's...

In the shadows of a remote English estate, a Victorian-era young noblewoman is drawn into a passionate affair as she becomes the target of someone waiting to exact long-awaited revenge in the final volume of Jo Ann Ferguson's enthralling Foxbridge Legacy series Her heart breaking, twenty-six-year-old Lady Mariel Wythe stands before the ruins of her beloved ancestral mansion. Perched near the sea cliffs of northwestern England, Foxbridge Cloister has always been her home—a place of carefree times, but also of memories of sudden terror in the night. And now the dark curse that hovers over the legendary estate and all its inhabitants is about to come full circle. The fire that destroyed most of the Wythe estate was no accident. And the danger is far from over. The town's new pastor, Reverend Ian Beckwith-Carter, is determined to uncover the secrets that keep proud, fiercely independent Mariel from ever planning to marry. He may be too late. The...

"...a delightfully action-packed romance thriller!" —Blue Ribbon Reviews on Faire Game"Jo Ann Ferguson is a storyteller full of surprises!" —Affaire de Coeur"I cannot recommend this wonderful series highly enough. I'm already anxious for the next installment." —Romance Readers ConnectionSomething is rotten in the Lake District...and the Prince Regent has asked Lord Neville Hathaway to investigate. But in order to ensure success, he asks his wife—and intrepid partner in crime-solving—Lady Priscilla, to join him.When they learn that a young woman of the Beau Monde has vanished in the area, they can't help wondering if that disappearance is connected to tales of a strange new settlement being created by a half-mad lord. Drawn into the madness against their wills, Priscilla and Neville go undercover as willing citizens in Novum Arce, the utopian recreation of Roman Britain, but it quickly becomes obvious that the...

A young woman's search for her family takes her to Haven, Indiana—and into the home of a beguiling stranger with secrets of his own in the final passionate volume of Jo Ann Ferguson's heartwarming Haven Trilogy Haven, Indiana, is a long way from Samuel Jennings's painful past. And after rescuing three children from the orphan train carrying them west, he finally has the family he always wanted. Then one storm-tossed night, a stranger appears at his door. For the past year, Cailin Rafferty has been searching for her children. Her desperate quest has taken her far from the potato farms of her native Ireland, where she gave her heart only to be cruelly betrayed. Now she has found her son and daughters at last—in the home of a man who loves them like they're his own. A man who's starting to awaken powerful yearnings in Cailin. But Samuel is harboring secrets that could tear them apart. Are they ready to trust each other with the future and...

A small town in 1870s Indiana is the perfect place for two people to fall in love while fleeing their pasts and searching for their futures in the first novel in Jo Ann Ferguson's captivating Haven Trilogy The bucolic town of Haven seemed like the perfect place for Emma Delancy to make a new life far from Kansas—and away from the threat of the hangman's noose. For seven years, her secret has been safe. Until she rescues an orphaned boy . . . and clashes with local newcomer Noah Sawyer. Now everyone seems to be conspiring to fix her up with the handsome single father. If Noah had wanted anonymity, he wouldn't have chosen this close-knit community on the Ohio River as his new home. But after five years, it was time to stop running. Now beautiful, plucky Emma Delancy is threatening his hard-won peace of mind. His growing attraction to this remarkable woman who takes in an abandoned child and is already bonding with his young daughter makes Noah...

Charity Stuart and her younger sister Joyce have lost their beloved father under mysterious and ruinous circumstances. On their way to London to live with their great-aunt who wants to sponsor Joyce for the Season, they meet Oliver Blackburn in a small inn. They don't guess that this enthralling man is a courier for the government, traveling back and forth across the Channel. That night, their trunk is stolen. All they have left is Charity's small case, but they continue on to London. The next time Charity encounters Mr. Blackburn, she learns he is Lord Blackburn. He seems oddly interested in her life before her father's death. His reputation is far from pristine, but she is drawn to him, fascinated by his bold kisses. The truth about her father's death shadows their growing attraction, and they must solve the puzzle of it before death strikes again.

When she hears of a young man being transported to the penal colony on the other side of the world, Phoebe Brackenton decides to come to the assistance of such wrongly accused people. She uses her family's own money to buy silence and take them to where they can start anew. After five years of success, Phoebe tries to avoid a trap and jumps into a waiting carriage. Inside Galen Townsend, a viscount, is shocked, but finds her charming. And brave in her attempts to do good. He wishes he could persuade his wild brother to live such a life. That was why Galen was on the docks, looking for him. But when he hears of the danger Phoebe is in, he invites her to come to Thistlewood Cottage where he will help her keep her mission alive. That offers him the excitement he craves, until he comes to realize that, though helping her puts both of them in jeopardy, his life could be changed forever if he falls in love with dedicated, courageous Phoebe. Can love play a part in two hearts already...